Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThis world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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